Marilyn ' s curve balls were unhittable ... "
Joe DiMaggio
Liliputins. What, the heck, is this ?
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throw (sb) a curve (ball)
mainly US and Australian English informal
to surprise someone with something that is difficult or unpleasant to deal with: Mother Nature threw us a curve ball last winter with record-breaking amounts of snow.
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un·hit·ta·ble
adjective
US
adjective: unhittable
(of a pitch or stroke) impossible to hit.
"his curveball can be unhittable at times"
•(of a player) making pitches or strokes that are impossible to hit.
"anybody who faces him will tell you that he's virtually unhittable"
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Joseph Paul DiMaggio[a] (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands. DiMaggio was a three-time MVP winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships.
At the time of his retirement, he ranked fifth in career home runs (361) and sixth in career slugging percentage (.579). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955, and was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken during the baseball centennial year of 1969. His brothers Vince (1912–1986) and Dom (1917–2009) also were major league center fielders. DiMaggio is also widely known for his short lived marriage and lifelong devotion to Marilyn Monroe.
According to her autobiography My Story, ghostwritten by Ben Hecht, Marilyn Monroe did not want to meet DiMaggio, fearing that he was a stereotypical arrogant athlete. On the top of this she had not a slightest idea about baseball. They eloped at San Francisco City Hall on January 14, 1954.
The marriage ran into trouble within a few weeks as DiMaggio, the product of a strict Roman Catholic upbringing, became upset by Monroe's personal habits, including her disdain for bathing and her tendency to relax around the house nude.[citation needed] Although she suffered from endometriosis, Monroe and DiMaggio each expressed to reporters their desire to start a family. An incident between the couple is supposed to have occurred immediately after the skirt-blowing scene in The Seven Year Itch that was filmed on September 14, 1954, in front of Manhattan's Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theater. Then-20th Century Fox's East Coast correspondent Bill Kobrin told the Palm Springs Desert Sun that it was director Billy Wilder's idea to turn the shoot into a media circus. The couple then had a "yelling battle" in the theater lobby. A month later, she contracted the services of celebrity attorney Jerry Giesler and filed for divorce on grounds of mental cruelty nine months after the wedding. After the failure of their marriage, DiMaggio underwent therapy, stopped drinking alcohol and expanded his interests beyond baseball: he and Monroe read poetry together in their later years. On August 1, 1956, an International News wire photo of DiMaggio with Lee Meriwether gave rise to speculation that the couple was engaged, but Cramer wrote that it was a rumor started by Walter Winchell. Monroe biographer Donald Spoto claimed that DiMaggio was "very close to marrying" 1957 Miss America Marian McKnight, who won the crown with a Marilyn Monroe act, but McKnight denied it. He was also linked to Liz Renay, Cleo Moore, Rita Gam, Marlene Dietrich, and Gloria DeHaven during this period, and to Elizabeth Ray and Morgan Fairchild years later, but he never publicly confirmed any involvement with any woman. DiMaggio reentered Monroe's life as her marriage to Arthur Miller was ending. On February 10, 1961, he secured her release from Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. She joined him in Florida where he was a batting coach for the Yankees. Their "just friends" claim did not stop remarriage rumors from flying. Reporters staked out her Manhattan apartment building. Bob Hope "dedicated" Best Song nominee "The Second Time Around" to them at the 33rd Academy Awards. According to Maury Allen's biography, DiMaggio was alarmed at how Monroe had fallen in with people he felt were detrimental to her well-being. Val Monette, owner of a military post-exchange supply company, told Allen that DiMaggio left his employ on August 1, 1962, because he had decided to ask Monroe to remarry him.
She was found dead in her Brentwood, Los Angeles, home on August 5 after housekeeper Eunice Murray telephoned Monroe's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson. DiMaggio's son had spoken to Monroe on the phone the night of her death and claimed that she seemed fine. Her death was deemed a probable suicide by "Coroner to the Stars" Thomas Noguchi. It has also been the subject of conspiracy theories.
Devastated, DiMaggio claimed her body and arranged for her funeral at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, barring Hollywood's elite as well as members of the Kennedy family from attending. He had a half-dozen red roses delivered three times a week to her crypt for 20 years. He refused to talk about her publicly or otherwise exploit their relationship. He never married again. According to DiMaggio's attorney Morris Engleberg, DiMaggio's last words were: "I'll finally get to see Marilyn." However, Joe's brother Dominic challenged both Engelberg's version of Joe's final moments, as well as his motives.